THEY are clean, quiet and efficient: no wonder electric and electric hybrid cars are seen as the future of motoring.

Actor Pete Postlethwaite goes environmental. By Kylie Northover.

THEY might look like a solution to the rising oil price and global warming, but a court ruling has found some motorised bicycles cannot be legally used on NSW roads - even though the Roads and Traffic Authority previously advised owners they could.

Electric bike affordable JEFF Corbett ("A slow ride to danger" Herald 21/6) criticises the use of electric bicycles as unregistered on suburban roads.